After decades of trying to bring down this pioneer of the hip hop movement, it looks like it will finally happen.
One person who was 12 at the time he was s.e.x. trafficked has brought a lawsuit against the pioneer and there are dozens, if not hundreds more out there.
The hip op star has bragged in the past about molesting kids, and no one ever did anything.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Afrika Bambaataa Sued for Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking
A lawsuit filed in August accuses hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa of sexually abusing and prostituting a minor over a four-year period in the early 1990s.
In the lawsuit, filed in August under the New York Child Victims Act and obtained by Rolling Stone, the John Doe victim alleges that “from 1991, when the Plaintiff was merely 12 years old, to 1995, the Plaintiff was repeatedly sexually abused and sex trafficked at the hands of” Bambaataa, referred to in the lawsuit by his birth name Lance Taylor.
A representative for Bambaataa did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
A lawyer for John Doe told Rolling Stone in a statement, “The New York Child Victims Act has finally provided a legal means for child victims of sexual abuse to hold those like Afrika Bambaataa responsible for the psychological and physical injuries caused to their victims. We will aggressively pursue justice for our client in this case, who the evidence will show, was horribly abused by Mr. Bambaataa.”
According to the lawsuit, the then-12-year-old Doe was allowed access to the home gym within Bambaataa’s Bronx apartment, where the DJ first “would comment about Plaintiff’s muscular body and would touch Plaintiff on the shoulders, biceps, and torso.” Bambaataa allegedly would later “inappropriately touch Plaintiff in his private areas,” which progressed to watching pornographic videos at Bambaataa’s apartment where he would “encourage Plaintiff to masturbating [sic],” which soon after “progressed to mutual masturbation.” That, the lawsuit claims, “progressed to sodomy.”
“Plaintiff became a victim of sex trafficking as Defendant Taylor would transport Plaintiff to other locations and offer Plaintiff for sex to other adult men,” the lawsuit states. “During said encounters Defendant Taylor would watch as Plaintiff was sodomized by other adult men.”
The alleged abuse lasted from 1991 to 1995. The victim — now in his early Forties — “suffered physical injury, severe and permanent emotional distress, mental anguish, depression, and embarrassment. Plaintiff was prevented from obtaining the full enjoyment of life and has been unable to keep a steady job. As a result, Plaintiff has incurred loss of income and/or loss of earning capacity,” the lawsuit says. – Source
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